VIEW cluster as icon, also available for controls and indicators ...

[manu.NET]

Hello,

The idea of viewing cluster constants as icons is a very good idea.

It would be very usefull to extand the idea to the controls and indicators.

I have to handle with big configuration clusters which take more than a window ... My need is to be able to iconify inner clusters in order to had a userfriendly view on my controls and indicators.

My real need is to be abble to view clusters controls and indicators in a TreeView way ... with the ability to expand / collapse some parts,

in order to highlight some specific parts. (The expand / collapse configuration should be keep in memory for each control/indicator instance)

This idea exists perhaps ...

Manu.

[SteenSchmidt]

A class is not a cluster, so it's definetely not a one to one operation to replace clusters with classes just to save FP real estate.

Why do so many think a class is the silver bullet? A cluster is a simple collection of elements in contiguous memory. A class is much heavier at runtime AND edit-time, and it is next to impossible to debug if you need to inject or probe values.

/Steen

[DanRichards]

See this idea:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/ideas/v2/ideapage/blog-id/labviewideas/article-id/20938/page/1#comments

[Darren]

Duplicate of http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/View-Front-Panel-Clusters-as-Icons/idi-p/2261514

[Darren]

Even though this idea came first by several months, the other one has more than double the kudos, so I figured it made more sense to close this one as the duplicate.